• DOI:10.1038/nmat4788
• Corpus ID: 45560504

Topological semimetals.

@article{Burkov2016TopologicalS,
  title={Topological semimetals.},
  author={Anton A. Burkov},
  journal={Nature materials},
  year={2016},
  volume={15 11},
  pages={
          1145-1148
        }
}

• A. Burkov
• Published 25 October 2016
• Physics
• Nature materials

The study of the electronic structure topology of crystalline materials has emerged in the last decade as a major new theme in the modern condensed matter physics. The starting impetus came from the remarkable discovery of topological insulators, but the focus has recently shifted towards topological semimetals and even metals. While the idea that metals can have a topologically nontrivial electronic structure is not entirely new and some of the recent developments were anticipated in earlier work, this shift was precipitated by the theoretical discovery of Weyl and later Dirac semimetals. The experimental realization of both Weyl and Dirac semimetals within the last couple of years has brought the field to the forefront of quantum condensed matter research.